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[LiLaaron]

Hi There!

I am basically trying to get the value of the array only and make it a variable.

First my Code:

<?
$text = file_get_contents("../ez_sql.php"); 
preg_match_all('/define\s*\(([^,]+),([^\)]+)\)/i', $text, $matches); 
foreach($matches[1] as $key => $value) 
{ 
   $value = trim(trim($value), '\'"'); 
   $data[$value] = trim(trim($matches[2][$key]), '\'"'); 
} 
// show results: 
foreach($data as $key => $value)
{ 
  echo "<p>Key: $key, Value: $value !</p>\n"; 
} 
?>

This will show me 18 different defines ($keys) what i need is the first 5 values as variables so it may look like this:

$username = $value[1]; 
$password = $value[2]; 
$dbname = $value[3]; 
$server = $value[4]; 
$prefix = $value[5]; 

i would then do what i need to do with them, just i am finding it hard to make the value a variable.

Thanks
Aaron

[vaaaska]

Don't you mean...the first five...

$username = $value[0]; 
$password = $value[1]; 
$dbname = $value[2]; 
$server = $value[3]; 
$prefix = $value[4];

If you have the array in $value why can't you simply just loop through it and assign what you need?

$i = 0;
$vars = array('username','password','dbname','server','prefix');

foreach ($data as $value) {

  // stop the loop at number 4
  if ($i >= 5) break;

  // make a variable variable
  // the below might need to be ${$vars[$i]} actually - try both
  $$vars[$i] = $value;

  $i++;
}

This could be improved but it's the gist of things. I haven't had coffee yet so my power moves are pretty weak right now. 😉

Variable variables = http://be2.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php

[scrupul0us]

what does $matches look like?

im not sure i see what u are trying todo other than over-complicate things...

if its a simple array just use a simple array call:

$array[position]

where u need the values

[LiLaaron]

Hi,

Thanks for the help, at the end, i thought o well lets try something new, so instead i used fopen, and saved the array into a txt file, and then used a function that would take out the left side of the part i wanted and then the right side. leaving me just the middle.

This works and its oks 🙂

But thanks for your effort.
Aaron